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•451 ACCOUNT OF 



It is difficult nO'V/ to afcertain the amount of re^ 

 in the dominions of the independent fovereigns o .' 

 grofs revenue of their terrirories, according to the 

 (e) eflablilbed by Aurengze'b, was 7,88. 80,000 ruoee 

 /force .maintained by Sitltant Muh'ammed, amou 

 ^QXkj and in the time of his fucceflbr AlI Aadil-Sh 



^Ses/apur as it was, and Bijapur as it is, are two ver 

 The City is a mafs of ruins, as well as the in^idz of vo^ 

 itfelf is fo injured, that in one or two places in it's eaftern face, you 

 can afcend from the ditch to the rampart. In faort, nothing now 

 remains but the durable monuments of it's ancient grandeur. What 

 m now called the Soobah of Btjapur,i% only one of its former fir cars 

 or, diftrids, which produced m the time of AAlumgir 24^00,000 ru- 

 pees, ^derived from Xho. huvMi\ [/) or capital, and 2g pergunnahs dt* 

 pendent on it. :Biit this diilri<S; has httn difraembered under the 

 Ma,*ihatta government, and it's dependent per;.punnaks 'now compofe 

 feveral diftincl: Jagi'rs, One of thefe h the City and its dependent 

 villages (.hutofii) of Bijapur, containing- 32 villages under the City, 

 :held in J^^gir by Gokla, one of. the principal military chieftains 

 under the Psshwa's government. The huwell with it's dependen« 

 cies, produced, in the time of AalumgIr, upwards of 5,00,000 rupees; 

 and under the Marhattas, about twenty years ago, one lac. It's pre- 

 fent revenue, i underftand, is between 30 and 40,000 rupees, about 

 a fourth of which is faer {g), and the reft mal^ or terricorial produce; 

 and this diminution in thje revenue is the confequence of a bad admi^ 

 "nillration of the country, the greateft part of which is now defolatCc 



(e) Renla'. 



.(/) City &ncl its def.endent yillageSa 

 {g) Imposts. 



